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• Post #2914244

  Nothing in the lab report. Everything in the lab report is far to low to be 'black stuff'. So I don't know and those who do are not talking. So far I have to go with this is nothing but haters trying to yell without concern for facts. If we get more details I may change my mind but for now this is nothing and anyone saying otherwise should be embarrassed for their lack of concern for facts.

• Post #695068

  At what point do I change from a concerned parent protecting my kids to an over protective hellicopter parent?

• Post #252172

  I'm blind without my glasses. I've thought about surgery but I'm wear ansi safety glasses anyway - I know what it is like to go to the bathroom without my glasses - that is okay in the middle of the night - but I have no interest in my whole life being like that so I'm protecting my eyes as best I can.

• Post #251882

  You are not wrong - but the point is there is value here, are just not getting it to the right people.

• Post #251671

  All spying needs to be owned by the person who owns the car. GM or however might have data, but it needs to not be accessible by them except by my agreement. Do I want my dealer to know when I need an oil change - maybe (depends on if I trust my dealer), or maybe I want my independent mechanic to know this, or maybe I change my own oil and want only me to know.

• Post #251522

  There are useful things about internet connections and phone home. Maybe not for you, but for many. For company vehicles when the car is due for an oil change the mechanics should be informed not the driver. Likewise the company should be able to track where their cars are and when they are driving (and restrict them from driving outside of their territory). For things like snow plows the company needs to track where they have plowed already. When it is cold it is nice to tell the car to...

• Post #231394

  Arms and legs allowed in are still really bad. You can't run fast in snow, and you are more likely to trip.

• Post #230032

  In some cases. However most often when there is a stack trace it is because something I didn't expect happened - I can't tell you how we got there or how to correct it because if I knew I would have just had the code do that in the first place. If the error is something the user did though I'd expect a clean error message.

• Post #222833

  Note that those are minimums. The pilots I know try to be well above the minimums as a personal rule. Landing without fuel is something they practice in the simulator, not something they ever want to try in real world conditions.

• Post #160546

  If they show me the pictures of my friends, while hiding all the garbage (outrage politics, "you won't believe this"...) so I spend about 2 minutes a day there and get off it would greatly increase productivity. Well it would lower mine because I almost never check facebook anymore - but my life would be enhanced if they limited themselves to the useful things they do and let me go in 2 minutes: a trade off that would be worth it.

• Post #160543

  There are a few things facebook is better at than anything in my life - checking up on distant friends that I wouldn't call normally but I want to know the big events in their life; ensuring my parent see pictures of my kids (we don't live in the same state). However those things only need a couple minutes of my time per day, and that isn't enough to make them a big company and so they keep shoving garbage that doesn't make my life better in my face. That garbage takes up hours...

• Post #157696

  Let's assume battery density gets so good we can make a complete transh American flight in one charge Nice thought experiment, but the physics of how batteries work mean we can't. The theory behind batteries only allow for so much improvement, and will never get close to gasoline/diesel. For most driving batteries are good enough, but they will never be as good as gasoline despite how inefficient ICEs are.

• Post #157690

  Sort of. Wind is very good at stirring things up, but you can still see differences in places where there are a lot of plants (1-2%). This things needs CO2 to function and that means it needs concentration so the more CO2 to start with the better. Fortunately this is small and electric is something we already move to cities in large quantities. Putting it in a city makes sense - assuming it works and is safe of course.

• Post #151304

  That is a tricky question. IT isn't just does the CEO know, but should the CEO have known. If you make a machine that injures people the courts ask should you have expected that. The first time someone uses a lawnmower the cut a hedge the companies and gets hurt can say "we never expected someone to be that stupid" - but we now know people do such stupid things and so if you make a lawn mower and someone uses it to cut a hedge the courts will ask why you didn't stop them -...

• Post #144907

  In my case wind turbines. My local utility produces more wind power in a year than customers use.

• Post #132430

  Why are you typing anything in a grocery store? Type in the kitchen when you need to add something to the list, but in the store it should be just checking off the items as you put them in the cart. Maybe you have a good reason, but it feels like you are solving the wrong problem. [insert long rant about usability and human-machine interaction] If you really need a keyboards I agree bluetooth keyboards are chunky. I often use a 60% keyboard with my phone, but it is a lot larger than my fi...

• Post #132060

  You can find bluetooth keyboards that work just fine on a phone. The hard part is finding a good small one.

• Post #129117

  @GaryGhost@lemmy.world @mesamunefire@piefed.social go to adafruit or sparkfun (there are others) and pick up a "learn how to solder" kit of a type that looks interesting an put it together. Those kits will have instructions that give you a good chance of success and give you practice. They are also cheap so you don't mess up something expensive if you make a mistake learning.

• Post #114203

  The price of a mini pc includes the price of the case, power supply, heat sinks, fans and such. The hdmi is the only thing suspect but if the case doesn't expose the hdmi port that will be in the minipc as well. when you compare just the board of a pi to a full pc that is unfair.

• Post #113953

  My guess is they started the site in the first place.

• Post #97696

  For now. Those used cars are rusting and otherwise wearing out.

• Post #97695

  The third parties would win sueing car makers for requiring the radio for diagnostics. anti-monopoly and warranty laws protect moding you car.

• Post #97690

  In the us laws from the 1970's protect third party radios.

• Post #97684

  If it doesn't affect emissions those mod chips will not violate your warrantee - magnuson-moss was writen decades ago to protect replacing your factory radio. There are a number of other laws around third party access to car diagnostics.

• Post #93065

  The other option is a scroll. historicaly I'm told a book was always a scroll and the factor we now call a book was a codex. (I don't know how to verify this)